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by cultus 7y ago
They're funding podcasts on the condition they are Spotify-exclusive. It's not about if you enjoy it or not, but just that you need to use Spotify to listen to a particular podcaast.
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by cultus 7y ago
Vague predictions of violence coming from your side only confirms what everyone thinks about you guys.
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Algebraic effects can do all of that and more. They're all checked, because you must provide handlers for effects you include.
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by cultus 7y ago
Gullibility and analytical intelligence are not mutually exclusive.
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by cultus 7y ago
Speaking of cruelty and Alexander, he was also a bloodthirsty, paranoid, alcoholic lunatic. Apart from the standard sackings and such inherent in ancient conquest, he executed many around him on shaky suspicions and killed his close friend
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by cultus 7y ago
It's fascinating that aside from being Latin, most of that ancient graffiti could have just as easily been scribbled on a modern toilet stall. Dick jokes are fundamental to what it means to be human.
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by cultus 7y ago
They clearly aren't regulated sufficiently. The lack of FAA oversight is what allowed the whole 737 Max fiasco to happen in the first place.
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by cultus 7y ago
Haskell still doesn't have real referential transparency. It's all a matter of degrees and no language is pure, even Agda or Coq. The concept of IO as a world state you pass around is deeply flawed, especially with multiple cores.
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by cultus 7y ago
So there is no need to delay delivery because they've launched a "robust" internal investigation. I'm sure this debris doesn't at all point to the possibility of overall bad quality control and the presence of other
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by cultus 7y ago
It's safe to say your experience is highly atypical. Even if a grad student's stipend is not funded on an RA for their research, the research still costs money. It is certainly funded from somewhere, and it's not coming from
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by cultus 7y ago
Replying to your lower comment: That is just not remotely my experience or the experience of most people I know. Most people in science I knew already know what project they would be working on before entered grad school at all. It is very
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by cultus 7y ago
That's not true. Do you even know how grad school works? Research you produce and grants you pull in benefit the university. Your research also is directed by your PI, a university employee and your boss, and often involves directly as
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by cultus 7y ago
Except that for research programs these tuition wavers are for "research credits" for the majority of grad school duration. That is, there is no classes, only work on behalf of the university. Unlike normal work, you pay them. Cal
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by cultus 7y ago
Yeah, nowhere else can get away with paying people 20 hrs/week and making them work 50.
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Huh? The entire article is related to the title.
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With ever-lengthening PhDs, it's getting hard to see many grad programs as not exploitative.
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by cultus 7y ago
It's actually very easy to overfit climate models. They are fit to observed data with statistical inverse problem techniques (the same as I imagine they do with astronomical data). Climate change models are just directly discretized ph
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by cultus 7y ago
There's far more moose attacks than wolf attacks. Being afraid of wolves as a human is completely irrational. It's one of the least threats you face in the backcountry.
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by cultus 7y ago
You realize we are talking about natural habitats here, right? It's not a lawn. Most public grazing land is arid, and quite fragile. Grazing can turn a rich ecosystem into a moonscape very quickly. Not to mention the feces destroys wat
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by cultus 7y ago
IIRC, the BLM charges around 15% of what it would cost on the open market. If the land were sold off like these rugged individualists want, most of them probably couldn't even afford it. Ranchers are usually well-off, but not massively
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by cultus 7y ago
Single-dispatch OOP dispatches (implicitly) only on the first argument, self. That is how Class B can provide the functionality of A. Multiple dispatch can dispatch on all arguments. Thus, OOP single dispatch is a special case of multiple d
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by cultus 7y ago
People write large-scale systems in dynamically-typed languages all the time. Multiple dispatch and macros make clean scaling easier than it would be in most other dynamic languages. Its competitors in numerical performance are C/C++ a
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by cultus 7y ago
Yes, with PackageCompiler.jl. There are some restrictions IIRC since it is a dynamically typed language. https://github.com/JuliaLang/PackageCompiler.jl
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by cultus 7y ago
Smaller populations very reliably have slower-evolving language. Icelandic is similar to old Norse and old English. Just like you'll hear a lot of Iowan accents in Atlanta but not if you drive 80 miles outside of town. Believe it or no
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by cultus 7y ago
Both. They are able to optimize things on Intel processors that no one else since they are the ones that make the processors and have more proprietary information and such. It's closed-source freeware but they make money on support.
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I really doubt Intel Fortran will stall. ifort is pretty big business for Intel and the HPC space. It's probably one area where LLVM's advantages don't really matter.
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I meant that it is stealing from the taxpayer.
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by cultus 7y ago
As a gay man, I can tell you that churches did not help protect me from oppression growing up. Quite the opposite. Your assertion about positive externalities seems highly suspect to me, and dependent on the institution. Charities also ofte
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"We have frames" Fantastic.
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I cannot fathom why churches are automatically tax exempt. Regular nonprofits have to jump through all kinds of hoops to prevent these kind of shenanigans. We are supposed to have a secular government. How is it that we single out this one

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